Observing Titan with amateur equipment
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We survey the observations of Titan that can be made using equipment available to amateur astronomers. Off-the-shelf hardware includes spectrometers and photometers that can detect Titan’s infrared light curve and potentially its clouds. CCD spectra and photometry (both photoelectric and CCD), even with small (20cm) telescopes, are useful for monitoring seasonal changes in Titan’s haze. Recent remarkable advances in automatic stacking of thousands of short-exposure images obtained with webcams may even permit Titan’s disk to be resolved. We additionally report some observations made with amateur equipment mounted on the 1.64m Gerard P. Kuiper telescope on Mt. Bigelow.
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